Posted on 12/30/2007 10:39:42 AM PST by Cagey
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Some of the coldest weather in years is expected to move into Central Florida to begin the New Year, according to Local 6 meteorologist Larry Mowry.
"This could be one of the coldest stretches of weather we've seen in about four years by the first part of 2008," Mowry said.
Mowry said a cold front will drop temperatures by Tuesday.
"But, the coldest of the air arrives on Wednesday," Mowry said. "It is into Wednesday night into Thursday morning when a freeze is possible."
Temperatures could drop into the mid 20s in northern Central Florida counties.
There is a 40 percent chance of rain on Tuesday with a low reaching 47 degrees.
"The winds will really begin to pick up Tuesday night," Mowry said. "And it is going to be cold and windy on Wednesday and Thursday."
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
I was reading an article on Global Pandemics, which had quite a bit written on the huge demographic changes wrought by the plague.
There are some scientists who actually think that one of the reasons for the ‘mini-ice-age’ was the reforestation which followed the plague, when large numbers of people died and stopped cultivating the land.
The plague ravaged Asia and Europe - not long after, the earth experienced what has been called “The Mini Ice-age”.
We all remember the stories of George Washington’s brutal winter at Valley Forge - that’s in the balmy South! During the battle of North Haven, cannons were slid across the ice on Long Island Sound from Long Island to West Haven. LONG ISLAND SOUND WAS FROZEN!
Is that what Gore wants to bring back?
ROTFL Glad I wasn’t just drinking my tea at the moment I read that.
A year or two earlier a volcano erupted in Mexico or Central America and there were some predictions of cooler winters in the northern hemisphere. Whether that was the cause I don’t know.
Here in NE Alabama we have predicted 35 highs and 20 lows the middle of this week. Ole global warming is moving in.
I remember being a third grader and hearing about the coming ice age. Sounded REALLY good to me, and I started envisioning myself as some apocalyptic huntress of the frozen wastelands (of Florida, of course) astride a wooly mammoth, holding a spear, and wearing a rough fur cape and Raquel Welch-esque fur bikini.
Imagine how pissed I was some twenty years later when all of a sudden it was Global Warming this and that...
Gloabl Warming!!!
The balmy part of Pennsylvania, perhaps. I guess if you were from Maine you would probably consider it in the South.
This cold snap won’t be long lasting nor particularly harsh. For one thing, there’s no snow around to carry the cold air south. The ground isn’t close to being frozen here in VA.
Yep.
Yankee all the way.
But still, when you think about the "Little Ice Age" - Long Island sound was frozen so thick that they were able to slide cannon across it from Long Island to Connecticut!
I never even saw an ice-cube in the Sound!
I cannot imagine a brutal winter in Valley Forge... but if Long Island Sound was frozen like that, it must have been brutally cold in Valley Forge too.
It just doesn't get that cold anymore.
Maybe when Al Gore fixes the climate, we can all freeze to death again like in the good old days.
You mis-spelled that.
It's Gore-Bull Warming
:-)
This seems to be matching the solar cycle predictions. It seems that another climatologist is buying into the natural-cycle global warming thing. Heretic! Burn him at the stake!
Boston will break its all-time snow record for December tonight.
Nah, It was just an Alberta clipper that came through and dumped some good snow too. We tied Columbus for the cold spot in the Country that morning.
That weather guy must be a newcomer to FL, I have seen much colder weather than that down there.
I was born and raised in FL, and lived there until the mid-'90s except for the three years when I was very young and we lived in western NY state. I saw snow flurries in the air many times in central FL where we lived in the late 1940s, and have seen morning lows of 12 degrees in Tallahassee in Jan of 1963 and 18 degrees as far south as Avon Park in 1957. I watched it snow off and on from my office window for a couple of hours one afternoon in the mid-'70s, and although the temperature was about 35 there was enough snow stuck on cars for kids to write their names in it with their fingers. It also snowed several inches and closed highways and streets from the GA/FL line to Ocala in late December of 1989 or 1990, can't remember which year.
IIRC the FL all time record low is minus 02 degrees, and that was set at Tallahassee during the big freeze of the 1897-98 winter that almost put FL out of the citrus industry for a decade. My long-deceased grandfather told me lots of tales about that winter. He said that for several weeks he, his dad, and his brothers had to break solid ice out of the frozen watering troughs every morning and refill them by drawing warmer well water in order for their cattle and horses to drink. Their only home heat was one fireplace, and their mother's wet dish towels froze stiff overnight in the kitchen every night for several weeks.
What the FL Chamber of Commerce type folks don't want you know is this. Although FL probably has the warmest and best overall winter weather in the continental US, it's not a true tropical climate except perhaps in the extreme south everglades and the Keys.
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~
It is amazing how freezes moving further and further south have driven the oranges to south Florida. The first oranges were brought to Saint Augustine by the Spanish, and Timucuan Indians brought them south as far as the future Ocala area. The Florida citrus business started after the Civil War, centering on Ocala. The freeze of 1895 drove the center of the orange groves to the Orlando area, but it was forced further south by the freeze of 1985, so that is now near the coasts and nearly as far south as Lake Oceechobee, if only some global warming could give us orange groves in Ocala again!
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